Sending & Receiving Lightning With Rizful

The lifecycle of a payment between two people

Enough talk! Let's try this in action.

We're going to try sending & receiving a Lightning payment with Rizful.com, our easy-to-use web-based Lightning solution.

Person A: Make The Invoice

The person who is going to receive the funds starts first, by generating an invoice

Click the receive button

Set the invoice amount

Enter an amount, and make the invoice

Copy the invoice text to your clipboard

You can see that there is QR code. That works well if you are going to pay the invoice from another phone (or other device with a camera), but this case we are copying the invoice text to our clipboard.

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Person B: Pay The Invoice

Now the person who is going to pay the invoice goes into their Lightning wallet, and scans the QR code or pastes the invoice text.

Click the send button and paste the invoice text

Send the payment

And less than a second later....

Rizful shows that the payment was sent

Are we done here?

Potentially, yes. If all you want from this guide is a bit of background on the Lightning Network, and a quick demo of how it works, then you can stop here.

You now know enough, actually more than enough, to use the Lightning Network to send and receive payments.

There are multiple Lightning wallets to choose from, and you can use them on your phone.

But: If you want to get deeper into this, then let's discuss some of the trade-offs involved with running your own node...